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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Coin slots?
Two suggestions:
(1) nylons (ask your wife/girlfriend/whatever for an old pair). Stretch the nylon across the coin slots, insert the coins, push the thing in and 9 times out of 10 the nylons will prevent the coins from dropping in and you'll get 'em back. We used to do that in college. You could do an entire week's worth of laundry for about 50 cents (inevitably you lose a couple of the quarters but hey. . .)
(2) electrical j-boxes. The metal kind. Find a construction site and a lot of times you can grab the metal "knock outs" where conduit attaches to the j-boxes. A lot of coin machines accept these as the same weight&size (approximately) as quarters. YMMV.
Again, "information only". I'm not advocatin' nothin'.  |
How times have changed. At my school, we don't use quarters for laundry. We have a card that we swipe (the same one that unlocks the doors for our dorm so we can only get access if we live in that building) at the washing machine. Our accounts our automatically debited then for the amount of the washing/drying. We can even monitor it online to see when our loads are done, or if there are any washers/dryers open when we want to go put a load in.